electric vehicle range

How much range does an electric vehicle really need? A hundred miles... two-hundred miles? We suppose the answer to that question depends on who you're asking, and if you're asking Nissan, the answer you'll get may be surprising. According to Mark Perry, director of product planning and strategy ...

Recently, the Schluckspecht E took to Bosch's 2,945-meter (1.83-mile) test track in Boxberg, Germany. Some 36 hours and 12 minutes later, the all-electric Schluckspecht came to a halt. In that amount time, the Schluckspecht reportedly covered 1,631.5 kilometers (1,013.8 miles). Since 36 hours is ...

A global survey conducted by the folks over at international consulting firm Deloitte shows that the current batch of electric vehicles do not meet consumers' expectations. Or, to look at the results from a different perspective, it shows that consumers' expectations are out of touch with ...

Last Friday, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated the installation of Coulomb Technologies' 500th plug-in vehicle charging station. That's interesting in and of itself, but it was something Chu said that captured our attention. First, Chu opened ...

While speaking at Toyota's 2011 Sustainable Mobility Seminar in San Diego, CA in early April, Jana Hartline, Toyota's manager of environmental communications, said that the automaker's upcoming electric vehicle (currently referred to as the FT-EV concept), to be based on the oft-delayed Scion ...

Recently, Volvo wheeled out its C30 Electric for some cold-weather testing in the Arctic. In temperatures that hovered around -33 degrees Celsius (-27.4 degrees Fahrenheit), Volvo claims that the battery-powered C30 had "no problems coping with the climate." As Obi-wan would say, this is only ...

Worried that your battery-powered ride might run out of juice, leaving you stranded out in the middle of nowhere? Well, if your electrified auto happens to be one that's built by Renault, then there's no need fret because the French automaker is set to offer what Autocar calls a "get you ...

When the discussion centers on electric vehicles (EVs), concerns over operating range always seems to surface. Case in point: a recent study conducted by a panel at Indiana University claims that the technology behind ...

Initially, Nissan insisted that its battery-powered Leaf had a range of 100 miles and other electric car seemed comfortable throwing out one number that supposedly represented a vehicle's range. However, as we get ...

When General Motors filed a trademark request for the oft-discussed term "range anxiety" the company lit a fuse, upsetting a handful of automakers. Tesla and Think immediately fired back at GM by releasing statements. First, Tesla vice ...